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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Kuchta, David, 1960- Three-piece suit and modern masculinity. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002 (DLC) 2001003099 (OCoLC)47023516 |
Material Type: | Document, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David Kuchta |
ISBN: | 9780520921399 0520921399 058546605X 9780585466057 1597349542 9781597349543 |
OCLC Number: | 52842830 |
Notes: | Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral). |
Description: | 1 online resource (x, 301 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Conspicuous constructions -- The old sartorial regime, 1550-1688 -- "Apparel oft proclaims the man" -- The crown proclaims the apparel -- Court capitalism -- Religious conformity to fashion -- The seventeenth-century fashion crisis -- "The mode is a tyrant" -- "A tailor made thee" -- "Popery and foppery" -- The moral economy of mercantilism -- The three-piece suit -- Masculinity in the "Age of Chivalry," 1688-1832 -- "the manners of a republic" -- Gentlemanly capitalism -- Sublime masculinity -- The feminization of fashion -- The making of the self-made man, 1750-1850 -- "Character is power" -- The language of capital -- "The great masculine renunciation." |
Series Title: | Studies on the history of society and culture, 47. |
Responsibility: | David Kuchta. |
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"[This] is an important contribution to our understanding of the transformations in England's economic, political, and social order between 1550 and 1850. Kuchta handles his assumptions, sources, and arguments with sure-handed grace."-Susan Kingsley Kent, author of Gender and Power in Britain, 1640 to 1990 Read more...

